Taylor W. Thompson

110 Added | 1 Magazine | 57 Likes | 9 Following | 10 Followers | @TaylorWThompson | Keep up with Taylor W. Thompson on Flipboard, a place to see the stories, photos, and updates that matter to you. Flipboard creates a personalized magazine full of everything, from world news to life’s great moments. Download Flipboard for free and search for “Taylor W. Thompson”

By now, it’s clear that carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gas emissions have created and continue to exacerbate a seismic shift in the global climate. Historically, the carbon dioxide balance on Earth has been regulated in part by the planet’s tropical forests, which absorb the gas in large …

When agents from the Drug Enforcement Administration raided a remote farm in Humboldt County five years ago, they found plenty to incriminate the owners, Anthony Pisarski and Sonny Moore.<p>More than 300<p>marijuanaplants were growing in a pair of greenhouses. Agents found guns in a house on the …

In its video and accompanying article, the educational company The School of Life presents a new way of thinking about shyness — suggesting that it results when we exaggerate our differences from others.<p>Our brains are wired to notice and exaggerate our differences<p>Research from psychology lends …

You won't be young forever so accept the three hangover cures that actually work.<p>There are only three hangover cures that actually work. The first involves drinking a can of Coca-Cola in the shower, the second sees you consuming three cigarettes and five cups of coffee in front of Gordon Ramsay's</i> …

Whether you are a giant global platform or a hip new startup, the most important first step in your business plan should be to care about mental wellbeing<p>Despite the growing research into the negative impact that screen-based technologies can have on wellbeing, the trick the tech sector people have …

You're experiencing the weird effect nicotine has on memory.<p>You know the feeling. You're two, maybe three drinks in, and you suddenly get a special hunger. It's like a void that you hadn't noticed, and now you want to fill it with something hot. Something so hot and filthy that you'll regret it …

Twenty-two senators wrote a letter to the president when he was said to be on the fence about backing out. They received more than $10m from oil, gas and coal companies the past three election cycles<p>A withdrawal by Donald Trump from the Paris climate accord would go down as a hallmark of his …

When you open your eyes, do you see the world as it really is? Humans have been asking themselves this for thousands of years. From the shadows on the wall of Plato’s cave in <i>The Republic</i> to Morpheus offering Neo the red or the blue pill in <i>The Matrix</i>, the notion that what we see might not be what is …

Originally published in the Manchester Guardian on 30 January 1917<p>The biting east wind played on the swaying wires beside the road, striking notes now melancholy moans, now high-pitched screams; it swept across the mere, lashing white foam from the wavelets; it drove floating ice fragments into the …

After digging through more than 10,000 separate clinical studies, the National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine on Thursday issued a groundbreaking, 400-page report on the potential benefits and detriments posed by cannabis use. The biggest revelation: cannabis has verifiable …

Let this past year be a kick in your ass, not a boot on your throat.<p>"Man has become a kind of prosthetic God," Sigmund Freud tells us in <i>Civilization and Its Discontents. "</i>When he puts on all his auxiliary organs he is truly magnificent; but… We must not forget that present-day man is not happy in …

A few years ago, a young man named Kyle Behm took a leave from his studies at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee. He was suffering from bipolar disorder and needed time to get treatment. A year and a half later, Kyle was healthy enough to return to his studies at a different university. …

It's not every day that a senior United Nations official reprimands the U.S. for its race relations, saying the country is "struggling to live up to its ideals" on equality, that "blunt discrimination" by police against black Americans has reached "crisis levels," and that Congress is …

Now I’m in my fifth decade, I’ve finally got some perspective. My advice is: go slow, be kind, and avoid leather trousers<p>How did you survive your 20s? Share your story<p>We emerge blinking and traumatised from our teenage years to be told, as indeed we are told with each new decade of our lives, that …

Image source: Flickr user Matthew Kenwrick.<p>It's hard to believe that it's been 20 years since California first approved medical marijuana for select ailments under Proposition 215 (which is also known as the Compassionate Use Act). Since 1996, the marijuana industry has expanded by leaps and …

Today, Santigold has shared "Banshee," a new track from her upcoming album <i>99¢</i>. It premiered on Zane Lowe's Beats 1 radio show, and you can hear it above.<p>"Banshee" follows the previously released "Can't Get Enough of Myself," "Chasing Shadows," and "Who Be Lovin' Me" featuring iLoveMakonnen. <i>99¢</i> is …

And I do a damn good job.<p>I wake up every day at 8:30 a.m. to smoke my first half-joint and take a big hit off a bong, so I can get super high before I get into the shower. I take another hit when I get out of the shower and start getting ready. Then I go to work.<p>As a concierge in Portland, I have …

Lawsuit proceedings reveal Google paid handsomely to be default search option for iPhones and iPads and that company’s total revenue from Android is just $31bn<p>Apple and Google are rivals. So why is Google the default search engine for mobile Safari, which is the pre-installed web browser on iPads …

Earlier this year, the iPhone Photography Awards announced the winners of their eighth annual contest.<p>Judges sorted through thousands of entries to pick the three best photos, as well as category-specific highlights.<p>"This year's entries were especially impressive, ranging from intimate, …

Though there's surely a whole crew that's behind DJ Deadmau5's creative sets and costumes, you've got to give it to nightlife and DJ photographer Drew Ressler (aka Rukes) for capturing it all in a magical way. Rukes proudly states that he's one of the few photographers who does very little …